Entrepreneur First Toronto Virtual Open Office
Event Information
About this event
We'll be having conversations about:
+ Why entrepreneurship is the career path to scale your ambition
+ What we look for in future founders
+ Applying to EF & the admissions process
+ What the programme looks like in detail
We look forward to helping you found the future.
Applications are still open for EF Toronto's April cohort. You can apply here.
About Entrepreneur First: We fund exceptional individuals to build their own companies from scratch, pre-team, pre-idea. We were recently backed by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, who led a $12m investment in Entrepreneur First, alongside Lakestar, and the founders of Google DeepMind. Click here to read all about it.
Organiser Entrepreneur First
Organiser of Entrepreneur First Toronto Virtual Open Office
Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor. We believe the best way for the most impactful & ambitious people to fulfill their potential is to build companies. We transform their lives by enabling them to become founders.
Since 2011, we’ve pioneered a new model of company creation: we bring together extremely talented people from academia and industry to build the next generation of globally ambitious technology startups from scratch. We fund individuals in London, Singapore, Berlin, Paris, Bangalore and Toronto to find a world-class co-founder, develop an idea with support from a network of experienced mentors, and raise money from the world's best investors.
Over 2,500+ individuals have taken our programmes, creating 350+ companies and raising over $500m of investment with a combined valuation of over $3 billion. EF companies include Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter), Represent (social commerce, acquired by CustomInk), BloomsburyAI (acquired by Facebook), Tractable (AI), Cleo (fintech), OpenCosmos (space), CloudNC (manufacturing), Transcelestial (satellite communications) and many more.
We're backed by some of the world's best tech founders and investors, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise).
